February 2011
slickwhippet: Beethoven in Paris →
slickwhippet:
Eugène Lami, Listening to the first performance in Paris of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
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Hector Berlioz, in the Gazette Musicale of April 9, 1837:
“It is now thirty-six or thirty-seven years since music by Beethoven, whose works were then totally unknown in France, was first played…
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“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art -
Not in lone splendour hung...”
– John Keats, Bright Star (via missmeggiemac)
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via melancholynotes)
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